[Info-vax] IPSec - Dear God in heaven NO!

[David J Dachtera]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> David J Dachtera wrote:
> > Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >> JF Mezei wrote:
> >>> It is not polite to ask this question. HP has strict policies imposed on
> >>> employees with regards to what they can or cannot say.
> >> Most big companies has explicit or implicit rules about
> >> what employees can say about the company - at least about
> >> business.
> >>
> >> For good reasons. Doing so could cause lots of legal
> >> problems.
> >
> > ...or could cause bad (or no) marketing to be circumvented, and so could
> > save the vendor from their own mistakes.
> 
> I don't think the "I decide what is best for the company so I follow
> my own rules instead of the company rules" way is a good way to run
> a company.

Lambs to the slaughter, eh? ...or lemmings to the cliff? Hope you don't
depend on your job for your livelihood if you trust your bosses that
blindly.

> I don't even think it would be good for VMS. Why would it be good to
> have 10 HP employees going around and tell about all the great
> plans they have for VMS and 10000 HP employees going around and
> say that VMS is dead.

Why?

Well, let's see now - that should be a self answering question, but
since it appears to have been missed, let's explore that.

"plans for VMS"? Well, not sure where that came from, but as long as the
plan includes promotion and continued maintainance, on-going income from
support contracts is possible. One benefit (big plus for the
share-holders, as well) among many.

Actually, I think the reverse is a better reflection of what actually
happened. A select group of HP folks went out to the major ISVs and
preached IA64 and (not VMS). The ISVS read (not VMS) as "VMS is dead".
So, in actuality, a select few went out to spread the word that "VMS is
dead" while the VMS organization went about its everyday business
supporting its customers, coding new features and bug fixes, and so on.
(We know this from "testimony" provided by those same major ISVs. This
is NOT "conspiracy theories", or anything else - it's witness from the
field. I have the e-mails to prove it. I cannot publish them, of
course.)

There may only be 10 HP employees with enough sense to not "drink the
kool-aid". Sad to think...

D.J.D.